On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 01:47 -0500, Ivan Gyurdiev wrote: > So... I upgraded to rawhide today, to be greeted by: > - gdm, gnome, kde, kdm, windomaker, rhgb... not working, and failing > with the most uninformative messages... > > I eventually managed to get into a twm shell somehow (through xdm), and > established gnome programs segfault in libfontconfig: FcCreateStrList > (or maybe it was FcStrListCreate). > > However, after rebuilding the package from source rpm, all problems are > gone. Why? Interesting issue (although I definitely remember you having worse problems with dwalsh's laptop over the summer ;). I would say bugzilla would be your best bet though. > Also, that reminds me once again how hard it is to recover from > rawhide. Why can't old versions of rpms be kept on the download server, > to aid users in the case of a critical failure? To keep people on their toes :) You can most likely recover from a broken upgrade by digging around /var/cache/yum for old packages, assuming you don't `yum clean` on a regular basis. luke -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list